Francesca Pascale, the 28-year-old girlfriend of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, said in a recent sit-down interview with the Italian edition of Vanity Fair that she relentlessly courted the 76-year-old billionaire, whom she hopes will propose to her in the near future.

"The norm has been that I always make the first move," Pascale said in the article that was published Wednesday. "I sought him out, I courted him, I made him fall in love and I made him my boyfriend. Practically I've done everything: he only has to say 'yes.'"

"He completely rejected me," Pascale added, regarding her initial volley with the former prime minister. "But mine is an unending courtship. It's still going on today. Even when he gave me the ring, it's not like he made a declaration of love."

Referring to Berlusconi as "B," Pascale recounted the two years of pain and jealousy following Berlusconi's 2010 divorce from his wife, actress Veronica Lario, during which time the virile 76-year-old threw lavish parties where he reportedly entertained multiple young, attractive women, the New York Daily News noted.

"It was a period of diffidence, of disillusion, he was incapable of showing true love for a woman," Pascale said. "For him that emotion didn't exist anymore. And in his eyes, I was a dreamer. It wasn't an easy time for me. And I never went to those dinners, because I wouldn't have been able to control myself."

In at least one such "bunga bunga" party, as they were called, Berlusconi apparently had a relationship with 17-year-old Karima El Mahroug, a Moroccan-born nightclub dancer and apparent prostitute.